American attorney and politician (born 1944)
Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani III (born 28 May 1944) is an American lawyer, politician, and businessman. He served as mayor of New York City between 1993 and 2001, and presided over the city's response to the September 11 attacks. Giuliani was briefly a leading candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2008 United States presidential election. In April 2018, Giuliani joined President Donald Trump's personal legal team. He became a prominent figure in Trump's first impeachment and his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 United States presidential election.
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We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for thirty or forty or fifty years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
I think the president has to be treated like everyone else. 'Cause I think under the criminal law everybody should be treated the same. I know there are people who would say that the president should be treated stricter. We used to have an era in which the president was treated much more leniently. But I think the right answer is: the president should be treated the same; as far as the criminal law is concerned the president is a citizen.